450: Odie (In the Name of Love)

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Odie (In the Name of Love)
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Made by: Manyhills


Explanation[edit | edit source]

The original has the ball of yarn (which is inexplicably sentient) declaring itself cool. When Garfield retorts by saying that it is impossible for a ball of yarn to be cool, it responds by donning sunglasses somehow, causing him to retract his statement.

This edit merely takes the final panel and changes it into a slam against Irish rock band U2, with Garfield declaring that their last good album was The Joshua Tree (their fifth, released in 1987). (The author does not actually share these views -- a much later strip's commentary reveals that he thinks their best album was Achtung Baby, their seventh from 1991.) Thus, the ball of yarn's sunglasses are now a reference to the band's frontman Paul "Bono" Hewson, who has a particularly iconic pair.

The title is a reference to "Pride (In the Name of Love)", from their fourth album.

The author writes:[edit | edit source]

Harsh.

Original strip: 2009-04-01.

Transcript[edit | edit source]

Garfield: {in front of a ball of wool with dark sunglasses on} They've not been good since "The Joshua Tree".